About Widnes Vikings & Your Lottery
Vikings Sports Foundation is the official registered charity and community department of our famous club.
Established in 2015 and based at the renowned DCBL Stadium, the Foundation helps change people's lives, no matter what their age, background, or ability.
We offer an innovative range of sporting, educational, entrepreneurial, health, and welfare programmes allowing individuals to aspire, dream and excel.
There are no limits to what can be learned, delivered, or achieved. We aim to expand the boundaries of excellence and most of all, we have great fun along the way. We are here for our community, for you, every step of the way.
Our outstanding staff and supporting partners ensure our projects are unique, relevant, accessible and desirable with many being shaped by the very people they target and work alongside.
Let us take you on a journey where there is only one winner, the whole community.
Everytime you play you help fund our Community and Pathway programmes.
Every time you play you will be contributing directly to the funding of Widnes Vikings' Community and Pathway programmes, as well as being in with a chance of winning Your Lottery £10,000 jackpot, there are also fifteen monthly prizes from the £1,650 prize pot.
Where your stake goes
- 60% of your stake goes directly to Widnes Vikings
- 20% is payable in winners' prizes
- 20% used in administration of the lottery
Compared with other lotteries
- 25.5% Health Lottery goes to good causes
- 28% National Lottery goes to good causes
- 32% Postcode Lottery goes to good causes
Why everyone's a winner
You could get your hands on the £10,000 Jackpot prize, whilst helping good causes like ours at the same time.
By entering Your Lottery, each month, 60% of your stake goes directly towards helping run Widnes Vikings' Community and Pathway programmes.
Even though you are playing to win an excellent financial prize, every time you play Your Lottery, you are having a positive impact on thousands of people's lives.
What we can do with the funding
- £2 helps children with special educational needs access sport in their school.
- £5 helps support those people living with life limiting illnesses such as dementia, Parkinson's and cancer.
- £10 provides free access to rugby for our growing development programme.
- £12 provides crucial mental health intervention sessions for some of the most at-risk people in the district.
Our Mission
- Extend the sporting offer across the county.
- Significantly enhance the health and wellbeing of citizens across the county.
- Expand and improve the access to education, learning and employment opportunities for people of all ages.
- Offer rugby-based and multi-sport coaching on a multitude of levels from grassroots to elite level.
- Provide strong, sustainable and impactful support work for the disabled, at-risk groups and communities, women, the elderly and those in need of life-changing intervention projects.
- Ensure the children and young people have a better start to, and chance, in life.
- Link our fragmented communities through high-quality, connecting programmes.
